Colombia confirm Quintana and Chaves for Rio Olympic Games
Rigoberto Uran, 🌜Sergio Henao and Miguel Angel Lopez also selected for hilly course
The Colombian national cycling federation has named its five-rider team for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2016 Rio Olympic Games road💮 events, with Nairo Quiﷺntana leading the selection.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Chaves' second-place finish at the Giro d'Italia sealed a place for the Orica-GreenEdge rider while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rigoberto Urán, the silver medalist from the 2012 London Games, has al꧋so been named in the squad🌺.
Team Sky's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Henao will also make a second appearance at the Olympic Games having ridden in London while Astana's Miguel Ángel López is the fifth and final rider selec🐈ted.
ꦡ"We chose these riders based on their careers, form, and experience - in the case of Rigoberto Urán and Sergio Henao - at past Olympics," said national coach Carlos Jaramillo.
"Miguel López is in there because he's a rider witꦚh a great future who has proven himself in big races. Also, it's a course for climbers and he could lend us a very good hand in that respect."
Jaramillo trave🍒lled out to Brazil to recon th🦄e road race route earlier this month, accompanied by Urán.
"It's a really tough course, made for climbers," he concluded. "It's oꦏne of the most difꦉficult circuits I'm seen and whoever wins will be a true Olympic king."
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Quintana, currently racing the Route 🌞de Sud, is aiming to win the Tour de France this July on his third appearance before targeting the Olympic road race on August 6. It will be his first appearance at the Olympic Games on what is regarded to be a climbing friendly 256.4km course starting and finishing at Fort Copacabana.
Ana Cristina Sanabria is the sole female reౠpresentative for Colombia.
